As Founders Associate, you'll be the right hand to Hostra's founding team. This isn't a traditional role. It's a launchpad. You'll work across strategy, operations, product, and growth, tackling whatever the company needs most at any given moment. One week you might be building a partner pipeline, the next you're analyzing churn data, and the week after you're helping shape a new product feature. If you're the kind of person who runs toward complexity and loves building from zero to one, this is your role.
What you'll do
- Support founders across strategic initiatives, from fundraising preparation to go-to-market execution
- Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and customer discovery interviews
- Own and drive key operational projects: partner onboarding, process optimization, internal tooling
- Analyze product and business metrics to surface insights and recommendations
- Help shape product roadmap by translating customer feedback into actionable feature specs
- Represent Hostra at industry events, demos, and partnership meetings
What we're looking for
- Exceptional analytical and communication skills
- Experience in consulting, startups, venture capital, or a high-intensity operational role
- Comfortable with ambiguity: you can structure a problem before anyone hands you a playbook
- Strong command of data analysis tools (Excel/Sheets, SQL is a plus)
- Entrepreneurial mindset: you've built something before, even if it was small
- Fluent in English and German
Nice to have
- Experience in hospitality, real estate, or SaaS
- Technical literacy: you don't need to code, but you understand how products are built
- Network in the German startup or proptech ecosystem
- MBA or equivalent experience
Why Hostra
- Shape a company from the ground up: your work directly moves the needle
- Learn every aspect of building a startup: product, sales, finance, operations
- Direct mentorship from experienced founders
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